Mayor Rob Ford’s summer football club has been suspended for failing to pay registration fees and several fines.

The Rexdale Raiders, a two-team Ontario Minor Football League organization found by Ford, racked up $1,950 in fees and fines since the spring season started in May.

If the Raiders apply to return next season, OMFL president Dan Ralph said the league’s governors will likely discuss concerns about the recent controversy surrounding the football-loving mayor and the club’s past assistant coach, Payman Aboodowleh, who has a history of violent crime.

“If they reapply, the question will be asked whether or not Payman will be involved and in what capacity,” Ralph said. “Given what’s come to light after the season in the media, I think there are some very serious concerns about whether or not he’s the type of person of character we would like involved with young men.”

He said revelations of Aboodowleh’s criminal past came after the football season ended in August, so the league’s only concern so far has been the unpaid fees.

After being reminded several times through email to pay the fees, the Raiders were finally suspended in early November, Ralph said.

Each team must pay $500 at the start of the season to participate in the OMFL, he said, and the Raiders didn’t pay their total registration fee of $1,000 for their varsity and junior varsity teams.

The varsity team ceased operations about two-thirds into the season after failing to collect registration fees from players. Forfeiting the league mid-season added a $500 fine on the Raiders’ record.

They also received a $400 fine for not complying with player suspension rules and an additional $50 fine for failing to provide game sheets to the league on time.

Ralph said the league last heard from the Raiders in September, when “team rep” J.C. Hasko, one of Ford’s assistants who was hired in May, told the OMFL treasurer in an email that he was working to resolve the situation.

“There’s been no response (to numerous league emails)” Ralph said. “We’ve sent the emails to the address provided. It has not bounced back.”

He said if the Raiders teams wish to return in 2014, they must follow a protocol that begins with paying outstanding fees and fines.

“Then they have to make a formal presentation to the league governors about why they want to come back and how things might be different,” Ralph said.

Seventeen governors would then vote to determine whether the teams can rejoin the league.

The teams’ suspension ends, for now, the mayor’s diminishing involvement with youth football.

“In past years, he was a coach with this organization,” Ralph said. “To the best of my knowledge, we did not see him coaching this year, for obvious reasons. He had more issues to take care of than football.”